TROTTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20605, 2 July 1930, Page 9

TROTTING.

CANTERBURY NOTES. SALE OF MAC DILLON. TRAVIS AXWORTHY'S WORK. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1 CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The New Brighton trainer, J. D. Smith, ha 3 disposed of Mac Dillon to E. J. Smith, of Prebfcloton. Mac Dillon is a very Rood pacer, and it is quite on the cards that he will win good races. Like most of tho Harold Dillon stock he is improving with ago. J. D. Smith ia working a number of young pacers, some of whom show the greatest promise, nnd ho has found it necessary to reduce his team. Travis Axworthy, who by his brilliant performance at the Canterbury Park meeting, became eligible for the Now Zealand Cup, is going along nicely under R. W. Franks' care at Scckburn, although no serious tasks are being asked of him. Ihe American stallion, who was raced and did stud duly before ever he was acclimatised, was set a big ta3k when ho was young, but he has gradually improved in stamina until now he fights out a two miles journey with tho best. The annual meetings of the three Christchurch trotting clubß will be held this week. The report of each club shows a successful season's working, and there will bo little of a contentious nature in tho business transacted. It is probable, howevor, that a move will bo made to have the times between races at the different meetings reduced a good - deal. Although it is a very general opinion that 30 between events would be ample time for all concerned a reduction from the present 40 nnd 50 minutes to 35 , minutes would perhaps meet tho position. Although Glenvillo had run several good races during the season, her victory in the Winchmoro Trot Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday marked the opening of her winning account. In tho Improvers Handicap at Ashburton in March, Glonvillo was unlucky enough to run up against Derry Pointer, and although she went 3.20 1-5 from a 3.45 mark, she could finish only ] second, w}iile she was third to Sodium and Harold Denver in tho Rakaia Trot Handicap at Ashburton in May. At Ashburton again early this month Glenvillo again ran up against another warm proposition in Gold Country, and on this occasion j she went 3.28 from a 3.41 mark. Glenvillo is a more than useful pacer who has been unlucky Her sire, Oinako, when trained by. R. W. Franks, was a high-class racehorse and Evelyn, her dam, was a full sister to Einmeline, 2.8 3-5, and Emiliu3, 4.33 2-5, by Rotchuchild from Imperialism, another good race mare, Kautoma scored a long overdue win when he annexed the Lyndhurst Trot Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday, for it is just twelvo months since he ran second to Lough Neagh in this race and later in the day won the Winchmore Handicap. At that time ho was trained by G. Caddy, but of late ho has been under tho care of L. Frost. Kautoma has at time 3 shown speed in his work that suggested ho would soon reach the highest class company, but this early promise has not been fulfilled in his public eflortp. A well bred one, Kautoma is by Harold Dilion irom Alice Iluon, the latter by Franz from Elsa Jluon, who traces back in the second remove to thoroughbred stock. Alice .lluon was a half-sister to Huon Drift and Dillon Huon, both performers of more than average merit. TROTTER FROM MELBOURNE. GIFT FOR MR. G. J. BARTON. [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] DCNEDIN, Tuesday. A trotter named Return Voyage arrived from Melbourne to-day, consigned to Mr. G. J. Barton. No particulars except the name accompanied tho horse. Some little time ago Mr. Barton mado a present of Hinklcr to a Victorian friend, and Return Voyage has been sent along by way of reciprocity. TROTS AT RACE MEETINGS. COMPARISON WITH TASMANIA. [by TELEGRAPH. —OWN correspondent.] CHRISTCIIURCH, Tuesday. In Tasmania, as in tho South Island of New Zealand, a number of Racing Clubs include in their programmes two events confined to light harness horses, and often the support accorded by trotting owners spells success or otherwise for (ho meeting as a whole. For tho Ashburton meeting last Saturday no less a sum than X'lo9 was received in nonuliatiou and acceptance lees for the two trotting races, and the totalisator investments on those two events amounted to £3340, as agaiust i 4281 on the five galloping races.

While owners and trainers of pacer 3 and trotters in New Zealand are only too pleased to take lull advantage of the opportunities offered them by the Racing Clubs there an agitation in Tasmania to have the two forms of racing kept widely apart, for the reason that light harness evems on Racing Club programmes adversely affected the Trotting Club meetings. " Overcheck," in the Hobart Mercury, says: "The two forms of racing havo so littlo in common that they might be likened to oil and water. Galloping clubs aro not concerned in promoting the best interests of trotting They are merely taking advantage of a form of racing with which they have not the slightest sympathy other than from a commercial point of view." Happily, this is not the state of affairs in tho South Island of New Zealand, whero owners of pacers especially are reasonably well catered for by the Racing Clubs. The two sports woTk in harmony, with consequent benefit to tho great majority. Although, perhaps, tho highest form of trotting sport is not catered for by the Racing Clubs there aro very many horses who win races and receive an education that qualifies them for more serious business on metropolitan courses.